The Digest. 02.01.10.

On the restoration of the Met’s shattered Tullio: How conservators are laboring (in secret) to revive the almost-dead.

Rich people and their rich people schemes: Asher Edelman to guarantee prices for art headed to auction.

Will the art market ever return to what it was in the early millennium? A report in the Art Newspaper predicts that “2010 will be a year of continued reshaping: auctions will remain smaller, private sales will be the preferred method of selling for the majority of collectors, the ‘best of the best’ will garner significant interest and sell well, and second- and third-tier works will be left unsold or see further price reductions.” The short answer, in other words, is…No.